By Aaron 13 November 2021 All eyes will be on this team as they are the first club to employ an Indian Head Coach for the upcoming ISL 21-22 season. Khalid proved every Indian Football fans wrong with his man-management and showed that he’s tactically on par with other ISL foreign head coaches. Northeast wasted no time by retaining foreign players who performed well like Deshorn Brown, Khassa Camara and Federico Gallego and signed new players like Mathias Coureur, Hernan Santana from Mumbai City and Patrick Flottmann. COACH AND PREFERRED FORMATION We have already seen how Khalid can do wonders. He prefers a 4-4-2 setup in which on possession it turns into a 4-2-1-3 where the second striker comes deep into the attacking midfield position and has a free role to pass to wings and cross it inside the box. The striker must have good positional abilities & heading ability to convert into goals. During an out-of-possession stage, 4-4-2 shape is employed with counter-press inv...